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Map, uncoloured engraving, The North Riding of York Shire, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, by Herman Moll, London, about 1724.
In the page margins, left and right of the map, are illustrations of antiquities; roman inscriptions on the left, and coins on the right 'Sancta Petri Moneta or St. Peters Pence are Saxon Coins and Struck at York'.
Plate 44 from A New Description Of England and Wales, With the Adjacent Islands, or a later edition.
   Moll 1724
map feature:- plain cartouche & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales (W from London, trapezoid projection) & sea plain & coast shaded & rivers & relief & hillocks & woods & forests & parks & county & settlements & roads
inscription:- printed title cartouche, upper left of centre
The North Riding of / YORK SHIRE / By H. Moll Geographer.
scale line:- 15 miles = 49.0 mm
wxh, sheet:- 32x19.5cm
wxh, map:- 255x191mm
scale:- 1 to 490000 ? (1 to 492656 from scale line assuming a statute mile)